Articles
My articles have appeared in the publications, Bonjour Paris, France Today, Complete France, The Good Life France, and Frenchly.
The Good Life
Looking for the good life in southern France, my husband and I first travelled from Seattle, Washington to Gascony in May 2006 with a...
Thanksgiving in France
For me there’s nothing that spells fall quite like the blanket of emerald green, and gold that color the countryside in dappled light....
The French Basque Country
The French Basque Country, also known as Euskadi, is located in the western Pyrenees Mountains, straddling the border of France and...
The Art of Food
The art of food is a much forgotten piece of cooking than plating a meal because we eat first with our eyes. For the past 11 years, I...
Provençal Pottery in Caromb
Provencal Pottery in Caromb a Village in the Vaucluse Provençal pottery in Caromb, a village in the Vaucluse is a place you pass...
Sempé, the Celebrated Cartoonist
The celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker magazine illustrator, Sempé, was born Jean-Jacques Sempé in the small village of Pessac, in...
10 Beautiful Vaucluse Villages
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region is a magical triangle of land in southeastern France composed of 6 departments:...
Consider the French…
"In 2009, The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert surveyed notable books about meat consumption and pointed out the paradox. 'Americans...
12 Gascony Gems
Moissac A mecca of Romanesque art in France, this UNESCO World Heritage site also has one of the largest concentrations of Art Deco...
Historic Gascony Road Trips
When it comes to road trips, the French countryside is hard to beat. And Gascony in particular seems to offer a carefree experience...
The Other South of France
The Other South of France is a hidden gem of a region known historically as Gascony. Most guide books and travel agents ignore this...
The First Colors of Paris
From neolithic cave painters to the mid-19th century invention of the camera, stopping time and capturing images has fascinated...
Gersois Charm
Imagine traveling to the most rural, least industrialized corner of southwest France with the purest air and longest-living...
Obsessive Love
Of Music and Muses: Hector Berlioz’s Obsessive Love It can often be said that love has no limits or boundaries, but obsession does....
French Bounty
“I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.” Anthony Bourdain The lure of France has never dimmed,...
Death by Chocolate
The history of chocolate, and its circuitous route to Paris, is not for the squeamish. From human sacrifice to the infamous Spanish...
The Paris Alphabet
The unique charm of Paris is based upon its savoir-vivre, that je ne sais quoi… the indescribable, yet completely recognizable, way of...
Lost In Paris
As anyone who has ever visited Paris knows, it is a walking city. Even the monumentality of its arrondisements does not overshadow its...
Collioure Magic
Catalonia, where the craggy Pyrénées mountains descend into the Mediterranean Sea. The view seen from high above the coast
Vaucluse Venice
“Song of the Sorgue” River rushing by so fast, at full pelt on your own… River where the lightening ends and where my home begins…...
Pays d’Artagnan
As you drive through the remote, southwestern French countryside, down narrow plane tree-lined allées past villages shrouded in...
French Country Adventures
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